Month: May 2016

The bus journey to Daocheng, was bumpy gloriousness. In most countries you tend to go around the mountains. In China you go right over the top. At one point we went over a pass at nearly 5000m. When we weren’t going over mountains, we were passing through tiny Tibetan settlements. It was a breathtaking ten… Read More Yading National Park

From Dali to Lijiang I took the bus and arrived in the early afternoon. The following morning I took an early morning bus to one of China’s most famous tourist spots – Tiger Leaping Gorge. It was the main reason that I came to south west China. 16km long and 3900m from the waters of… Read More Tiger Leaping Gorge, Lijiang, Shaxi and Shangri-la

Guilin to Kunming involved an overnight train. After I had gotten over the scrummage through the ticketing gates, the rest of the journey was just lovely. Eighteen hours couldn’t have gone quicker. The Chinese people, as always, were unbelievably welcoming and we talked about all number of subjects without having a clue what the… Read More Kunming and Dali